If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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